Tag Archive: Teaching to the Test

As a public school teacher we are placed under a lot of pressure to provide an education for our students, and rightly so. That is why I choose that career and have persevered doing it for over a decade. Unfortunately it gets tougher every year to stay with it. Do not get me wrong, I …

via So, just taking a little break from getting an end of the year test study guide done for my students, and as I was working on it and it kept getting longer and longer I started to think about all the days wasted in the school year prepping for this end-all be-all standardized test. …

Lately in my classroom it seems like I keep telling myself over and over again that this makes no sense. Being an eighth grade U.S. history teacher there are a lot of ups and downs, and I can happily say that I have had a lot more ups than downs in my short teaching career. …